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Frost Sparks @frostsparks10/15/2023, 4:55 AM

Moose @M00se0nTheLoose

Retro Heart @retroheart10/14/2023, 1:14 AM

Things you SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT DO to get around YouTube's adblocker ban on Windows

UPDATE #4: Use Freetube for regular browsing. This is making the rounds again in The Final Days of Cohost so I figured I'd put this up top. The below method is still very useful if you want to save a high quality copy of something locally with the added bonus that you don't have to go through some scummy external website to do it.

DO NOT download the latest version of MPC-HC

DO NOT download the latest version of yt-dlp then put the executable in the MPC-HC installation folder

DO NOT download the latest ffmpeg essentials and put ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe in the MPC-HC installation folder

After doing the above steps, DO NOT run MPC-HC, go to Open File/URL, then paste in the URL of the video you want to watch

And absolutely DO NOT use Save a Copy if you want to save the video to your PC at original quality instead of using some weird sketchy site or add-on to do it

UPDATE: Okay. This blew up in a way I was not expecting in, uh, 10 hours or so, mostly while I was asleep, and it's a little overwhelming. A lot of people who are more knowledgeable than me have lots to say in the comments about other methods and how to save videos as different formats that I wasn't aware of. Take a look there for other download and format options!

UPDATE 2: Think I'm just gonna silence this post so I don't destroy my notifs for the near future. I'm more an Art Guy™ then a Tech Guy™, and I outlined the process that works for me. I really did not expect this to get so much traction, and there's a lot of discussion in the comments with people helping each other, which is great! Keep doing that! I really do hope everyone finds something that works for them!

UPDATE 3: This is continuing to destroy my notifications anyways because silencing a post doesn't remove the little notification bubble, just prevents it from showing as a notification itself. So if you've read this far, check out my profile, consider sharing or liking one of my art posts that appeals to you if you found this useful.

#YouTube

Moose @M00se0nTheLoose10/14/2023, 1:15 PM

Step by Step Guide

For anyone interested, I wrote up an step by step guide on how to get yt-dlp up and running here on cohost and copied that over to my website here

A couple of things to note.

First is that I've never touched MPC-HC, and have no clue what that does, so that is absent from my instructions.

Secondly, I had my girlfriend who is not techy follow these steps and it seemed to work, so I believe that anyone should be able to follow them.

Thirdly, I remember needing to update YT-DLP the other day, and I haven't tried these instructions since. If they no longer work, let me know and I'll try to update the instructions

#YouTube #yt-dlp

Frost Sparks @frostsparks10/15/2023, 4:55 AM

that step by step guide is a blessing, I can now download songs in like 5 seconds without having to trip over viruses and scams, thank you moose

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Modren @Modren10/14/2023, 3:10 AM

This is really useful, but I prefer to have files in .mp4 because my video editing software doesn't support WebM. Do you have a recommendation for software that can convert .webm to .mp4 without re-encoding the video?

ruby @srxl10/14/2023, 4:02 AM

you should be able to do it with ffmpeg - a command like ffmpeg -i <input filename>.webm -c copy <output filename>.mp4 should get you an mp4 file. caveat: you will most likely end up with an mp4 file containing a VP9 video and Opus audio stream, which is a bit unusual - no guarantees your video editor will be able to load it (but both VLC and mpv on my desktop have no issues handling it, fwiw).

i'm unfortunately not aware of many GUI applications to do this - usually I'd go for Handbrake here but afaik it doesn't have an option to copy video without reencoding. there might be some other ffmpeg frontends i'm not aware of though, so it's worth a search.

Modren @Modren10/14/2023, 1:13 PM

That did work! Converting to .mp4 did crash Resolve when I tried to import it, but converting to .mkv let me import the video (albeit with no audio, this sometimes happened anyway when I used an app I paid for (like a fool :eggbug-pensive: ) so I'm not super bummed about it).

蒸しルビー @YuushaRuby10/14/2023, 6:03 AM

I don’t know what all this stuff about MPC-HC is but yt-dlp works great on its own and the default setting is mp4 I don’t know why people are trying g to get you to reinvent the wheel here

Modren @Modren10/14/2023, 1:09 PM

Honestly, idk if I'm doing something wrong, but I can never get yt-dlp to work on its own. I open the .exe and it just immediately crashes, and I can't use it from Command Prompt either. Maybe there's something else I should be doing, tbh it feels like a lot of "tutorials" out there expect you to already know how to do a lot of stuff that is not obvious to me.

Moose @M00se0nTheLoose10/14/2023, 1:19 PM

Hello,

I commented this below, but I typed up a step by step tutorial for how to get YT-DLP running, and my girlfriend who is not techy was able to follow it and get it to work, as well as someone on cohost. It might also help you, though I did have to update my YT-DLP the other day so I'm not 100% sure the tutorial still works. But I figured I'd share just in case it does still work.

CoHost post

Instructions on my Website

I originally typed up the instructions on CoHost, and copy/pasted them to my site. So they should be the same instructions, I just wanted to offer both for whichever you'd prefer.

Amaya’s Den 🍂@amayasnep10/14/2023, 8:12 AM

Way ahead of you

joo is going through it @jenoctopus10/14/2023, 9:44 AM

hi! i'm not a programmer and thus a complete noob when it comes to github - when i open the mpc-hc link, which button(s) should i press to download the program? ty in advance ;w;

kyle @-pegasus10/14/2023, 10:20 AM

don't worry, it being impossible to download things from github has been a well known problem since the invention of github.

On the right hand side will be a very small and easy to miss thing called "releases". There'll be a version number and the word "latest" in a green bubble. Click that.

Then scroll down a lot until you reach "assets", and the download links are there. You probably want the first one.

joo is going through it @jenoctopus10/14/2023, 10:55 AM

okay, tysm!!

Moose @M00se0nTheLoose10/14/2023, 1:12 PM

For anyone seeing this, I wrote up an explanation on how to get yt-dlp up and running here on cohost and copied that over to my website here

A couple of things to note. First is that I've never touched MPC-HC, and have no clue what that does, so that is absent from my instructions. Secondly, I had my girlfriend who is not techy follow these steps and it seemed to work, so I believe that anyone should be able to follow them. Thirdly, I remember needing to update YT-DLP the other day, and I haven't tried these instructions since. If they no longer work, let me know and I'll try to update the instructions

SnepShark @SnepShark11/3/2023, 2:58 AM

The instructions do still work, thanks!

Moose @M00se0nTheLoose11/3/2023, 10:35 AM

Not a problem, glad to help!

Maddie @HunnyBon10/14/2023, 10:40 PM

I'd like to share, you can get mpv for windows via mpv-msix

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